Fit-outs at Eureka, Orbital Park and Waterbrook Park
Eureka Science and Business Park, Orbital Park and Waterbrook Park are Ashford's main employment areas, the Designer Outlet has been expanded, and Ashford International Studios is converting part of the former railway works. When a unit on any of them changes tenant, the old floor covering comes up and a new one is fitted. The screed or slab beneath is often patched, trenched for cabling or uneven where partitions stood.
Levelling compound puts that right quickly. Normal depth is anywhere between about 2mm and 10mm or so, a few products can be poured thicker, and the fast drying versions have the floor fitter back at work soon after. To check the result, a 2m straightedge is laid down and whatever gap sits under it is measured: up to 3mm passes SR1, 5mm SR2 and 10mm SR3. SR1 is the class many thin sheet finishes demand, which matters for vinyl in offices and studios. Retail floors under large format tiles need the same care, since a tile bridging a dip is likely to crack under load.
Preparation decides whether the compound bonds. Old adhesive and coatings may need grinding off, and the base has to be primed with the product made for it, whether concrete, sand and cement or calcium sulphate. That stripping back is done through our floor grinding service.
For warehouse floors that need a new wearing screed rather than a skim, the work falls under commercial screeding, usually with a high strength or fibre reinforced mix.
Levelling older floors and extension joins in Ashford homes
Floors in older Ashford houses tend to lose their flatness with age: small dips, humps and ridges that did not matter under carpet but show through LVT or crack large format tiles. Where the base is sound, a primed compound a few millimetres deep brings it within tolerance. Latex compounds work in thinner sections still, and our latex screed page explains when they suit.
Doorways between rooms are a common trouble spot too, where an old threshold has been removed and left a ridge or a trough that needs filling before new flooring runs through.
Extensions add another common problem. The new screed and the original floor rarely meet at exactly the same height, and compound feathered across the join gives the fitter a continuous surface for one run of flooring.
Compound cannot fix everything. A floor that is out by well over 10mm, hollow, cracked or damp needs a new screed, because deep compound over those faults can crack and debond. In that case a relaid sand and cement floor is the lasting answer. Sending photos, the size of the room and the flooring product with your enquiry lets us say which route fits before we price it.
How we price floor levelling in Ashford
A fixed written price within 24 hours, once we know the area and the base. See our floor screeding cost guide.
Who levels your floor in Ashford
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
See what customers say in our Google reviews and on our testimonials page.
Floor Levelling from Slough to Ashford
On the map, Ashford sits east-south-east of Slough, about 70.8 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including TN23, TN24 and TN25), next to Faversham (11.6 miles), Canterbury (12.8 miles), Sittingbourne (14.5 miles) and Whitstable (16 miles).
More on floor levelling, part of our screeding services. Not sure whether you need a thin compound or a full flowing screed? See self levelling screed explained.
